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I'm coming out of semi-retirement. The reason? An event twenty four years in the making.
I was in Palermo when Italy last won the Cup -- a month shy of 4. It was a long wait for this one -- but well worth it.
Savor the intensity of the game and the worldwide celebrations. How else? Two words. YouTube.
And videowall.
Turn on your speakers, but not too loud. (You may also want to save all your documents before hitting play 30 times :-)
...is not getting an e-mail from a D.C. muckety-muck. It's getting an e-mail from blog superhero Brendan Loy, on the morning of his wedding, announcing that he'll be live-blogging the event.
At the other extreme, we have Jeremy Hermanns photo-blogging a near-disaster at 30,000 feet. Yes, folks, the potential applications of this thing called the blogosphere stretch to infinity.
Congratulations, Brendan (though we would have gladly waited for the hi-res photos).
Oh, and while I'm here...
Wasn't that something today?
While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. (Applause.) Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war. These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs.
They also know that intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein. They know the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his development and possession of weapons of mass destruction. And many of these critics supported my opponent during the last election, who explained his position to support the resolution in the Congress this way: "When I vote to give the President of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, it is because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security." That's why more than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate -- who had access to the same intelligence -- voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power. (Applause.)
The stakes in the global war on terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges. (Applause.) These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will. As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them. (Applause.) Our troops deserve to know that this support will remain firm when the going gets tough. (Applause.) And our troops deserve to know that whatever our differences in Washington, our will is strong, our nation is united, and we will settle for nothing less than victory. (Applause.)
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